Otto Warmbier

Otto Frederick Warmbier (12 December 1994-) was an American college student who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea for trying to steal a propaganda poster from a restricted hotel area on 16 March 2016.

Biography
Otto Frederick Warmbier was born on 12 December 1994, and he had a double major in commerce and economics at the University of Virginia after graduating from Wyoming High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Warmbier joined the Young Pioneers Tours company while in college and went on a trip to North Korea in 2016, stealing a propaganda poster from the Yanggakdo International Hotel due to a person offering him a $10,000 reward for it. He made a confession, saying that he had made the worst mistake of his life and said that he wished that the United States did not manipulate him and others to commit such crimes. However, on 16 March 2016 he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.